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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1908
Page
2
Tom Lawson and Pierpont Morgan threaten funding for the Democrats if they control candidate lists. The speaker argues the public erred in electing Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, predicts a similar misstep with Taft nominating Roosevelt’s ally. The piece asserts voters are wiser than in 1836.
The Brazos County Farmers Union gathering near Bryan was moved from July 9 and 10 to July 10 and 11 due to the Farmers Congress July 7 to 9. President I M Cook urges attendance for mutual benefit and a full meeting on the new dates.
Reports include a white jockey killed and another injured in a Marlin race, a white mother and son drowned near Milano, political campaigns in the eleventh district, floods subsiding in the Mississippi basin, and various Texas news items. Other notes mention a murder in Sabine county, marriage banns in Paris, and local civic developments.
Mr Ralph K Chatham left the northbound Central train Saturday night to Garland for a marriage contract with Miss George Williamson of St Louis. Chatham is a partner in Hunter and Chatham, Bryan natives with many friends. The bride led Wagner Brandon millinery in St Louis before moving here. The couple arrived at 2 40 this morning and are at home with Mrs R K Chatham Sr.
More than five hundred managers of theaters concert halls nickel shows and amusement parks received circulars from State Factory Inspector Edgar T Davies in a first step of a campaign against employing children. Parents may be held responsible when minors under sixteen are found working.
In Spokane on June 22 workers sinking a 3000 foot oil well near Lenox Washington found pebbles and preserved wood at 560 and 585 feet. The wood appears burned and a beeswax like substance is present. Samples will be sent to Washington State College At Pullman for analysis.
A B Y P U business meeting will be held at the First Baptist church tonight at 8 o'clock. All members are urged to attend.
Engineers T. R. Batte, Roger Nall and George Chance completed surveying the overflowed district along the Brazos west side in Burleson county Saturday night. A map of the surveyed territory will be prepared and presented with the petition to the Commissioners court. The levee location and action by district planters has been published previously in the Eagle.
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